Reply #20: Here is the best line I've heard about academic politics:

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"The politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small."
(anonymous, by request)

This helped me understand previous dealings with the postsecondary world.

In this case,Mike, the stakes are very large. This is appropriate to the USCV board, another board, but not DU in my opinion, and that's what I'm expressing.

Paralysis by analysis is the MO lately around here and it doesn't move things further down the road. As landshark pointed out, there is more than a prima facia case, considering all the evidence, for a fraud investigation. That's what we should be pushing for.

I'm a great admirer of the Society of Friends and you're a lucky guy. From my recollection, and it's been some time, when a group decision is made, they move forward with impressive resolve and unity.

The decision here is that fraud took place. We can go on endlessly around the margins but that only makes us look disunited and somewhat moribund, despite our small number.